Sales catalogue 491: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/50
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 491: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BouGaINviLLe (LEWIs DE)—continued. England and France in Canada, and was aide-de-camp to Montcalm. After the Seven Years’ War, he fitted out an expedition at his own expense to colonise the Falkland Islands for France. Spain took offence, and the French Government decided to formerly hand the Islands over to her. The expedition described in this present volume was the result. Bougainville was instructed to proceed to the Malouine or Falkland Islands, hand them over officially to the Spanish Authorities, and then to proceed across the Pacific Ocean to the East Indies and so back to France. This was the first French expedition to sail round the world. The expedition called at the Island of Tahiti, which was annexed for France by Bougainville and named La Nouvelle Cythére. Actually the Islands had been re-discovered a few months earlier by Captain Wallis in the ‘‘ Dolphin.’”’ They were probably actually first discovered by Quiros in 1607. Bougainville gives a long account of Tahiti and several other of the Society Islands, and a vocabulary. Several other South Sea Islands were also visited. It is most remarkable that Bougainville only lost seven men out of a crew of 200. His account is written with simplicity and some humour. He saw much distinguished naval service on his return, and died in 1814. 1772 A.D. [107] BOUGAINVILLE. Voyage Autour du Monde. Together with :— Supplément au Voyage de M. de Bougainville; ou Journal d’un Voyage autour du Monde, fait par MM. Banks & Solander, Anglois, en 1768-1771. Traduit de l’ Anglais, par M. de Fréville. With 24 engraved folding maps and plates. 3 vols., 8vo. Contemporary French calf, gilt backs. Paris, Saillant and Nyon, 1772. {2 38 The first two volumes contain Bougainville’s account of the first French circumnavigation of the globe, and the supplementary volume contains Bank’s and Solander’s account of Cook’s first voyage. 772 Al). [108 |) (BOUGAINVILLE,):: Voyage’ Autour °du Monde, . . . Seconde édition, augmentee. With 22 folding charts and maps. 2 vols., 8vo. Original wrappers, uncut. Paris, Saillant and Nyon, 1772. ub 2) 28 Contains the long preliminary discourse, as in the Neuchatel edition. See footnote to the first English edition.